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The Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee / Jeffrey Ostler.

Ostler, Jeffrey. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0521793467
  • ISBN: 9780521793469
  • ISBN: 0521605903 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780521605908 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: viii, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"Vilest miscreants of the savage race: : the Plains Sioux in an empire of liberty -- "Futile efforts to subjugate them" : failures of conquest -- "Doubtless an unauthorized promise" : the politics of the Great Sioux war -- "Force is the only thing" : the killing of Crazy Horse -- "We were raised in this country" : claiming place -- "I work so much it makes me poor" : the reservation economy -- "Just as well with my hair on" : colonial education -- "All men are different" : the politics of religion and culture -- "Great trouble and bad feeling" : government agents and Sioux leaders -- "Enough to crush us down" : struggles for land -- "When the earth shakes do not be afraid" : the ghost dance as an anticolonial movement -- "To bring my people back into the hoop" : the development of the Lakota ghost dance -- "The most serious Indian war of our history" : the army's invasion -- "If he fights, destroy him" : the road to Wounded Knee -- "A valley of death" : Wounded Knee.
Subject:
Dakota Indians > History > 19th century.
Dakota Indians > Government relations.
Indians, Treatment of > Great Plains > History.
Ghost dance > History.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Politics and government > 19th century.
United States > Colonization.
Dakota (Indiens) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Dakota (Indiens) > Relations avec l'État.
Indiens d'Amérique, Attitudes envers les > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Danse des esprits > Histoire.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siècle.
Sioux (volk)
Behandeling.
Expansie (macht)
Kolonisatie.

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